God Is Talking

By Hinston Robinson

The title of the book was selected after much thought into the process of how your mind never seems to rest or stop. This thought process for the author started at an early age when he almost drowned and continues to this day. He believes this is God\'s way of talking to each of us, therefore the title: god is Talking.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 16, 2018
• ISBN: 9781641401807

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God

Is Talking

Hinston Robinson

ISBN 978-1-64140-179-1 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64258-267-3 (Hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-64140-180-7 (Digital)

Copyright © 2018 by Hinston Robinson

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Background

Hinston M. Rob Robinson, the author, was raised in Georgia with his six brothers and four sisters. He received his psychology degree from Park College in Parkville, Missouri. He served in the military for over twenty years. He enlisted at eighteen years of age and was trained as a Combat Arms Infantry enlisted soldier. After his two-year enlistment was completed, he became a member of the Department of State as a member of the Foreign Service, where he served in Germany. He rejoined the Army during the Vietnam War and attended Officer Candidate School (OCS), becoming an infantry officer, and served in Vietnam. After Vietnam, he transferred to the Adjutant Generals Corps where he completed his over twenty years of military service. He was hired as a civilian working for the Army as the Personnel Proponent Advocate for Ordinance Corps officers, warrant officers, and enlisted soldiers. He is now a retired Army officer, civilian, and farmer after forty-five years of service.

Lynette K. Gough, editor and coauthor, is an adjunct English instructor at several area universities and community colleges. She is also a writing consultant with her own firm, A Great Impression, where she edits, proofreads, researches, and tutors students and adults in grammar and essay writing. Her children’s books, The Adventures of Paci and Treeter, will be introduced next year.

Preface

The Beginning of My Journey

Almost drowning at a very young age started a lifetime of questions and, for me, a special understanding of my relationship over the years with my God. He has given me an introduction to his totality, and as I understand it from him, no man has the capability and capacity to fully understand it. In this introduction, I will do the best of my ability to share with you some of the thoughts he has given me over the years. I must add the free will he has given us all may have colored some of my thoughts. Now let me begin…

First, Creation: I, God, knew from the moment of your creation, and even before that, your total history. Do you not wonder why your brain does not rest? At the moment of your creation, I provided you with what many call a soul. It is my method of being in constant communication with you. It would have been simple for me to have taken full control of you, but I gave you free will to override that soul voice. This free will allows you the freedom to do some of the things I am capable of doing. These actions by your kind are sometimes judged to be good or evil by you. In fact, they are neither good nor evil in my eyes, just a reflection of my totality. This does not mean that a group of you cannot form communities and agree upon standards by which you live. You also have the capacity and the capability to punish those who do not comply with these standards. But to punish in my name or to judge in my name is beyond man’s understanding of me. Punish and judge in your own name, by your own rules, and take responsibility for your actions, but not in my name.

Love. As you do not understand my totality, you cannot be expected to understand my total love and acceptance of you. Your brain cannot accept my totality or completeness; the wonder, doubt, dread, and a myriad of negativity crowd into your thoughts, and your faith is shattered. My love and acceptance of you are total. It does not fail or wander. It is always there for your comfort. In your darkest hour, know that I am with you, and regardless of what you may have done, my love and acceptance of you are complete and total. Let this understanding warm your days and comfort you at night, for I am always with you, and I do not condemn you. What is right and wrong? You have your ideas of right and wrong. Your ideas of right and wrong are not my ideas. Think about what happens that man has no control over: the death of a beloved child, sickness, storms, floods, even the day-to-day sun and moon rising and setting, the seasons…who controls all these things?

Man has no control over my hand. Man, on the other hand, was created by me to assist me in reflecting my totality. The kindness and love that can be shown to his fellowman is a reflection of who I am. But you must look at man’s total being: his enslavement of others, wars, and the development of weapons, which can destroy whole cities, laboratories that produce killer diseases, drugs, and other destructive methods, all to kill and control. Your greed reduces whole communities to starvation and poverty. These too are only a few of man’s abilities to reflect my totality. You must understand, and by your understanding of who I am, understand I control both of what you call right and wrong, and to this end, there is no good or evil in my eyes. No one is my equal. No one or nothing has this total control but me.

Judgment. Man does not have the understanding to judge my works. Your free will allows you to judge that which you do, but not in my name. If you look at all the peoples of your world, some have values that are so different from yours, so you judge them to be wrong, or even evil. But they have been given the same rights and free will you have been given. If I had not desired this reflection of my totality, I would not have given man free will. Look at the world. All things that exist are by my hand. When man judges these things I have created, he neither has the capacity of understanding nor the wisdom to judge in my name. His judgment of my works is futile. My work will stand forever; man’s will fade away.

Acceptance. You are by my hand. Your acceptance by me is complete. Others may not accept you, but never fear because the one that matters accepts you. You may ask, What does that mean? It means that in my eyes, you are perfect. Do you think I would create someone or something that would not please me? You may make choices in your clothes, hair, or even body that others may find faulty, but I do not. Listen to that soul voice. If you stay in tune with it, you stay in tune with me. Even if you do not stay in tune with your soul voice, my acceptance of you is total.

Joy. Living with joy is my goal for each one of my creations. There are a few simple rules, but rules that are hard to follow. Rule number one: you must have total trust in me. That means everything that happens to you is by my hand and is for your benefit. Rule number two: do not worry. If you worry, you will miss out on the joy of living. You cannot change anything by worrying, so why worry? Rule number three: love yourself. By loving yourself, you can love others, and most importantly, love me. I know everything long before anything happens to you, what is going to happen, and how you will react. Place your love and trust in me. Your welfare is important to me, and I have the strength and power to look after you. Rule number four: stay in tune with your soul voice. I have provided this as one of the most important tools in keeping yourself in balance and in touch with me. The joy you will experience with this balance is beyond belief. As you learn to use your soul voice to align yourself, your joy will increase. Living with joy is living with your soul as I created it to live with me.

Change. Change has been a constant in your life since your conception. While change is constant, living with change and what it brings can, for some, be very difficult. As a young boy or girl, the changes to your body was both a joy and a period of doubt: will you be pretty or good-looking, will you be liked, all of those things that come with growing into adults. Then as the years pass, your body begins to show the stress of time. Changes are on the march. You lose some or all of your hair, your skin begins to sag and become thin, and the slightest bump will leave you with a cut or a bruise. Then your health begins to fail, and your mind is not as sharp as it once was. You forget old friends and good times. You reflect more and more on days gone by, but this change is also by my hand. Live and use this change to draw closer to me. Your bodily changes allow you a closer walk with me, a total joy. For you, these steps seem simple, but I know how difficult it is to accept and follow them.

Life. To sum up, my relationship with man is, for me, quite simple. I created you in my image; therefore, you are a reflection of who I am. This reflection was created to reflect my totality. You see, each of you, as you live out your lives, reflect who I am. From conception to what you call death, you reflect who I am. Some of you reflect what you judge to be good, while others reflect what you judge to be evil. I know your acceptance of me, being all things, is difficult for you, but for you to understand my total acceptance of you, I must reflect all ways and things that you do. I have given all of your capabilities, which, in some small way, reflect who I am, my totality. On one hand, I have placed no restriction on your abilities, but without using the building blocks I have given you, you cannot create anything new. The building blocks can be changed by you to build wonders of the world, clothe, feed, and do other things, some by your standards good and bad. Changing or using my building blocks have produced wonders, but they pale when compared to the wonders I created and provided to you. Change will come to you, but you, as with all things I have created, will not be destroyed. Death as you know it is, for me, just another change.

Change. You will change, but this change is by my design, and as I have been with you before, I will be with you after. I will always be with you. My love and acceptance of you do not change. Take comfort in my love and acceptance of you. You will always be with me, and I will always be with you. One final note from me, the author, as you read this book: in this book, I have written only those thoughts that are relevant to this book. The only two clear talks with God were when I was a young boy—once when I almost drowned and once when I fell out of a tree. It may have been a lack of oxygen to my brain, as some would have me believe, but I still hear and feel his voice and his presence in my life today. These two important occurrences started me on a road that has benefited me beyond measure and has helped me in a relationship with my God. This book is written so others who may wonder about life and that inner voice may know that at least one other person has walked down part of their road. I wish them a rewarding and joyous trip.

Introduction

God! Who Are You?

Iam all the things that you have seen and the things that you have not seen and will never see. The sounds you hear are only the sounds that you are physically able to hear. I hear all the sounds from earth and the heavens, from the wind blowing through pine needles to the colliding of stars in the heavens. I feel your love, your hate, and all the emotions you have, which are also mine. I am totality. I am all things. I am complete. I am changed. Without me, there would be nothing. I am the joy that a mother feels when she holds her baby to her breast to feed it for the first time. I am also the mother who is repulsed by her newborn and takes its life. I am the father whose chest almost bursts with pride at his son’s abilities on the ball field. Likewise, I am also the father who abandons his son without a thought. I am the couple who love and care for each other as I am also the couple who hates and tries to make each other as unhappy as possible.

All make these choices based upon this free will. I am he who sees and loves the things I have created. We feel the same joy in seeing the hummingbird guard its space by shooting a fake dart at its opponent. We laughed when we saw a newborn calf try out its legs for the first time. We share the first clumsy run of this calf. For you see, all the things you feel, I also feel. The things you do are part of who I am. As you reflect a part of me, I reflect all of you. In my totality, all that exists is by my hand. All the things you can conceive of are only those things you have experienced. Your time has been conceived by night as it turns to day and day to night, the seasons, and the change that occurs during these periods. These changes were conceived by me and given by my hand to you. Change is a key to understanding one part of who I am. Take the seasons, such as the joy of spring, new life, when trees put on new leaves and grow; or in the summer when the heat brings a maturation of the plants; or in the fall, a time to harvest and for plants to drop their seeds; or in the winter with the cold, the snow, and a period of dormancy. Then this cycle starts over again but with changes. The giant old oak did not make it through the winter to start another spring. The area around it will go through major periods of change in the years to come. But for many years, it has dropped several seeds, and now a number of little oak trees are beginning to grow. Some will replace the old giant oak. All of these are by my hand, just as you were conceived by my hand and grew.

When you heard your mother talking (praying) to me as she milked the cow that provided some of the food for your family, she gave thanks to me for all ten of you that were alive. She also remembered the one that died as an infant by my hand. She believed she was blessed, and so she was, by my hand. As a baby, you were totally dependent on someone to protect you, feed you, and keep you warm and clean so that you could grow and, by the way, change. In time, you became mobile. Soon you could eat food from the table like your older brothers and sisters.

Change. Then off to school you went, and then by my hand, you did not drown. Life is eventful with so many changes. Then it was time to leave home. Change. Your free will made you decide to join the Army. Big change. This was the first time, at eighteen, you had been on your own. But by this time, we had talked several times, and your buddies had not peed on you—good laugh. You have now grown old according to your understanding of time. But our talks have given you the briefest understanding of time, as time exists without a beginning or an end for me. That is my time. I share your thoughts and know what is in your mind, even though we have discussed changes, which will surely happen to you. I know the difficulty in accepting what you believe to be the final change. Remember as you walk this path, you are a part of